NSTC/CREOL Distinguished Seminar Series: “Soft
Optoelectronics: From Brain Interfaces to Fly’s Eye Cameras”- John Rogers
Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:30
AM to 11:30 AM
Room CREOL 102 and 103
Celebrating the International Year of Light 2015
Abstract:
Recent advances in materials science and mechanical
engineering enable construction of high performance optical, electronic and
mechanical microsystems that can flex, bend, fold and stretch, with ability to
accommodate large (>>1%) strain deformation with a purely elastic
mechanical response. Such technologies open up new engineering
opportunities in bio-inspired device design and in intimate, multifunctional
interfaces to the human body. This talk summarizes fundamental and applied
aspects of two recent examples: (1) hemispherical digital imagers that
incorporate essential design features found in the arthropod eye and (2)
injectable, cellular-scale light emitting diodes for wireless control of
complex behaviors in animal models, via the techniques of optogenetics.
Biography:
Professor John A. Rogers obtained BA and BS degrees in
chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989.
From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the
PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a
Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. He joined
Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter
Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department
from the end of 2000 to 2002. He is currently Swanlund Chair Professor at
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, with a primary appointment in the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is also Director of
the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. Rogers’ research includes fundamental
and applied aspects of materials and patterning techniques for unusual
electronic and photonic devices, with an emphasis on bio-integrated and
bio-inspired systems. He has published more than 450 papers and is
inventor on over 80 patents, more than 50 of which are licensed or in active
use. Rogers is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, MRS and AAAS, and he is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. His research has been recognized with many awards,
including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2009, the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2011 and,
in 2013, the MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award, the ASME Robert Henry Thurston
Award and the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical
Sciences. In 2013 he also received an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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